US Patent Issued to Fortinet on March 31 for "Systems and methods for non-equal boundary security policy application in a network appliance" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,970, issued on March 31, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for non-equal boundary security policy application in a network appliance" was invented by Frederick Tang (Palantine, Ill.) and Shushan Wen (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide systems and methods for applying network policies to network traffic based upon a non-equal boundary search tree."

The patent was filed on June 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/208,376.

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